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...last 50 years we have consolidated concepts which make a new international order," he said. "The Chileaus have learned to respect sovereign independence. They have made persistent and definite efforts to set up extensive relations among themselves and other people." In Pan-American affairs, he stated, they may point with pride toward their efforts in forwarding peace...
Before the days of railroads, of high tariffs and high wages, when most of the U. S. population clung to the seacoasts, men took to the sea in merchant ships. Clippers like the Flying Cloud, Sovereign of the Seas, Great Republic, Red Jacket, Lightning showed clean heels to anything afloat. U. S. seamen, U. S. ships were the finest in the world. Before the Civil War the U. S. had the best and second-biggest (2,379,000 tons) fleet of merchantmen on the high seas, and carried over 77% of its foreign commerce in its own bottoms. But steam...
...Constitution was adopted. How had it come about? Working forward from the Constitutional Convention, and backward from the failure of the League of Nations, Clarence Streit found the demon: national sovereignty. So long as nations dealt with each other as government-to-government, he decided, no league of sovereign states, no system of pacts or alliances between sovereign states, would work. But when the people of the different governments were united in a Federal Union, with the states retaining their rights and differences, the gain to the world could be as great as was the gain...
...Spanish democracy of the bull ring manifested itself and caused a small, black bull, like Ferdinand, to be sent to spend the rest of its life among the flowers and the cows, and Lorenzo Garza, El Magnifico, to be fined 1,000 pesos for making obscene gestures to the sovereign aficionados of Mexico...
While Dictator Francisco Franco palavered along the Mediterranean with Dictator Mussolini and Marshal Pétain (see p. 27) his onetime sovereign added another egg to the Spanish omelet. Dandified, talkative King Alfonso XIII, deathly ill with angina pectoris in Rome, announced that a month ago he had abdicated his vacant throne in favor of his son, 27-year-old Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias...